benefit brokers

EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, announced today that Kevin Melvin has joined the firm as Director of the firm's Southeast Charter School Practice....

EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, announced today that Aaron Schwen has joined the firm as Client Advocate of the firm's Southwest Risk Management Practice....

EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, announced today that Aaron Zetterower has joined the firm as Principal of the firm's Southwest Risk Management Practice....

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals. Chapter 5 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, details the promise of digital health: wearable, shareable and virtual.

The Trump administration wants states to innovate in ways that could produce more lower-cost health insurance options — even if those alternatives do not provide the same level of financial or medical coverage as an ACA plan.

While the benefits of self-funding are well documented, some HR directors are scared of transitioning to these plans. The three tools to help you ascertain whether you are prepared for self-funding include the look back analysis, look forward analysis and probability.

The recommendations by the GAO includes establishing numeric enrollment targets, ensuring information for navigator organization awards are accurate and exploring other parts of the consumer experience.

The Accenture report warned that “Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs), distributors and wholesalers, and payers would lose big in a landscape that will be unrecognizable. The winners will be those that leverage and develop technologies that take friction out of healthcare development and delivery, while lowering costs and delighting consumers and providers.

Health insurerscollect patient information from social media posts to TV habits, marital status, level of education etc. and feed this information into complicated computer algorithms that spit out predictions about how much your health care could cost them.

Walmart's choice for health and wellness VP make news headlines as speculations of a merger with Humana increases. In other news HHS Secretary Alex Azar appoints a senior adviser for value-based transformation and innovation

One industry expert says the Amazon-PillPack deal will eliminate the need for middlemen because their services are no longer required by employers and their employees. The deal could also affect advisers who only work off the commissions from the insurance carriers.

NFP announced a $30 million venture fund to discover innovative collaborations and technology investments in the HR, insurance and financial services arenas. The objective is to showcase bleeding edge products and services.